Clown Resource Directory

The Indianapolis Clowns Clowns Of Baseball The Negro baseball leagues and barnstorming teams specialized in presenting baseball clowns. Many teams included a clown character on their roster during the 1930s and 40s. The Brooklyn Royal Giants featured Coun

biography of Tommy Hanneford, circus clown and trick rider, producer of the Royal Hanneford Circus

Clown History Bruce is internationally recognized as a clown historian. His presentation on the history of American clowning was one of only five papers chosen for the 1993 World Clown Congress in Harnosand Sweden. He is the chairman of the International

What is a clown? According to the Encyclopedia Britannica a clown is "a familiar comic character of pantomime and circus known by his (sic) distinctive makeup and costume ludicrous antics and buffoonery whose purpose is to induce hearty laughter